Cricket 1911

O ctober 7, 1911. EUGBY FOOTBALL AND CRICKET. 553 B IR T H . MILTON.— On the 24th ult., at Old Park Ridings, Winchmore Hill, the wife of H. A. Milton, of a sod. M A R R I A G E . NAPPER—KING.—On Sept. 20, at St. Nicholas Church, Sutton, Surrey, by the Rev. H. W. Turner, Rector, assisted by the Very Rev. the Dean of Bloemfontein (cousin of the bridegroom) and the Rev. A. E. Lister, Douglas Dendy, only son of Dendy Napper, of Sutton, Surrey, to Bertha Sibyl, only daughter of George Lander King, of Ashtead, Surrey. Cncket: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 168, UPPER THAMES STREET. LONDON, E.O. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1911. pavilion (3ossip. The abstract and brief chronicle of the time. —Hamlet. T was with much pleasure we noticed that Mr. E. M. Cregar was well to the fore in the recent match at Toronto between Canada and the United States. Mr. Cregar has paid more than one visit to England as a member of a touring team, and is remembered over here as one of the most popular cricketers—and there have been many such—who have come over from America. In the match referred to he brought about a collapse just when it appeared likely that theCanadians would run up a somewhat formid­ able total. There were 140 runs on the board with only three wickets down, yet the innings closed for 156. Cregar’s bowling was in a large measure responsible for the sensa­ tional collapse, seeing that, after going-on for the second time, he sent down four overs for five wickets and six runs. His analysis reads thus :— 3 w w w w 1 w 1 1 He thus actually dismissed five men in 20 balls whilst only three runs were made off him. It is, by-the-way, not generally known that it was owing to Mr. Cregar’s persuasive powers that Mr. J. B. King, the finest all-round cricketer America has produced, was induced to give up baseball and centre his attention on cricket. If for no other reason, Mr. Cregar deserves to be affectionately remembered by the cricket-loving public of England and America. T h e constitution of the sides in last month’s match at Toronto between Canada and the United States was interesting. The former team was composed of four players of Toronto, three from Hamilton, two from Mon­ treal and one from Calgary and Winnipeg, and the side was regarded as one of the most representative international teams selected for many years. The United States players were drawn exclusively from Philadelphia. One of the umpires, by-the-way, was the Rev. F. W. Terry, the old Somerset player. H ir s t and Haigh have received official notification that, owing to the death of the Maharajah of Cooch Behar, their engagement to go to India this month in order to coach the late Maharajah’s cricket team has been cancelled. A Reuter message from Bombay states that the Tri­ angular Tournament was won easily this year by the Parsis, who beat the Hindus by nine wickets and the Presi­ dency by eight. The feature of the matches was the success of Warden and Bulsara as bowlers. The great majority of cricketers are probably acquainted with “ Tom Brown’s School Days,” the author of which was Thomas Hughes, K.C. In his recently pub­ lished Memories, Mr. Henry G. Huntington says of him:— Mr. Thomas Hughes, M.P., was the embodiment of Tom Brown, although he denied that he had intended to draw himself in that character. But I felt at once as if I had known him all my life. He had a manly, frank manner, a young, ruddy face, with twinkling blue eyes, and his talk was full of wit and interest. It was to me the realisation of m y hopes as a boy, as 1 had an unbounded admiration for him, and followed his career in life always with interest. ‘ ‘ Tom Brown’s Match ” was between Rugby and the M.C.C., on the School ground in June, 1841, and of the twenty-two who took part in it only one— the Rev. Orlebar —survives. Hughes scored 29 and 0 and an exciting match ended in a draw. Miss E m i l y W a s o n R o t c h , of 47, St. George’s Road, Westminster, S.W., among many bequests left £5 to the cricket club at Appleton-le-Moor, Sinnington, Yorkshire. A l l who know him, either personally or by repute, will be sorry to hear that the week before last Tom Sherman had the misfortune to fall and break a leg. He was born as far back as 1827, and played his first match for Surrey sixty-four years ago. A t Lord’s on September 23rd H. R. Jordan, the old international hockey player, helped to win the Commercial Travellers’ match againstWembley bymeans of a brilliantly- hit not out innings of 119. He reached three-figures in 40 minutes and obtained his last 40 runs in ten minutes. The Commercial Travellers, going in against a total of 172 for four wickets (innings declared closed), ran up 175 for six wickets in an hour and three-quarters and won on -the stroke of time. In the annual match at Weybridge, on September 2 1 st, between eleven county professionals got together by G. W. Ayres and X X . of Weybridge and District, John Durant, a local centenarian, started the match with an underhand delivery. The batsman, S. Gandy, kindly rose to the occasion by walking out of his ground and being stumped. Durant was born at Norwood, near Southall, in Middlesex, on February 2nd, 1810. F r o m copies of the Natal Advertiser, kindly sent us by a Durban enthusiast, we cull several items of interest concerning South African cricket. The Currie Cup Cricket Tournament at Durban last March was financially a loss, as might perhaps have been expected, with seven teams (from very distant centres, in some cases) competing, and three matches in progress at once. The total gate-money taken was only £30 ! In this connection it is well to remember, however, that the South African cracks were only on their way home from Australia at the time ; and their absence naturally diminished interest in the Tourna­ ment. The Committee of the Durban Cricket Union generously gave up their claim for rent for the grounds, in order that the Natal Cricket Association should not have to send in bills to the governing bodies of the various visiting centres. O n October 2nd it was hoped to have a match between the Currie Cup Natal Team (cup-winners) and the Rest of Natal, including Nourse, Vogler and Pearse, of the Scutli African X I. Dave Nourse is back in his old home at Durban ; Ernest Vogler has settled down in Natal, and will captain the Escombe team, which has just been admitted to the Durban Senior Club Competition, last won (without Nourse’s help) by Greyville, which side A. D. will again captain in 1911-12. Vogler may still be a great man in club cricket; but it is very doubtful whether we shall see him in England next season. In the course of a match at San Francisco on September 10 th there occurred a remarkable incident, which was thus described in a local paper:— “ Trundler Orton, of the Alameda cricket eleven, laid out two players with one delivery of the ball at Croll’s grounds yesterday in a pennant